Category Archives: science

The weather forecast for Upsilon Andromedae b

October 14, 2006 – 9:03 pm

One day Geeklawyer expects to be able to tune into Radio 4 and hear the weather forecast: “there are warnings of gales in Viking North Utsire South Utsire Forties Cromarty Forth Tyne Dogger Fisher and Upsilon Andromeda b”. Granted Andromedans might not find a terribly specific forecast; it may not help when planning a […]

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of robot dogs and the inevitable decline and fall of man

June 23, 2006 – 5:53 pm

In his days as an R&D physicist Geeklawyer knew the boundaries between curiosity and ethics. He never tortured animals, well - except the odd PhD student - but they hardly count, and only rarely did he develop weapons of mass destruction; even then on the strict condition that they would not be used against humanity, […]

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Chimps smarter than humans?!

June 11, 2006 – 10:02 pm

New Scientist says that chimps outperform humans in certain memory tasks such as playing cards.
Well that’s as maybe but it seems that the real lesson is not to play card games with chimps, or if you do check to see if they are card counting.
But while they may stuff us at cards Geeklawyer knows […]

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